Originally Posted by
Dave Fitzgerald
The center fuel tank on the XLR's caused a delay in design. Not regular NEO's, but the XLR's.
Yes, the 787 was designed to replace the 767. But even the 787-10 really isn't big enough to carry what the 777-300's can do. It is close to a replacement for the 777-200's as currently configured. But also doesn't have the seating capacity of the A's. So close to a doable replacement, but not quite. If Boeing were to increase the weights on the 787-10, then maybe for the 200's. But then you are squeezing more people into a smaller box.
The 787-10 could easily fit more seats than our 364 seat cattle car 777’s. Max seating on it from Boeing is 440. We already put 318 in it and 2/3’s of the plane is business class and Polaris. The 787 is way more airplane than a 767. Look at the range difference. Let me see a 767 do LAX-SIN. 7772A/B’s can’t do that. 787 is a perfect match for our 777-200’s. The company said over and over the 777-9 is more airplane than we need. They have said we only need about 20 planes of that gauge. How many 777-300ER’s do we have again? The 797 was going to fit perfectly between the 757 and 767. An engineer in Boeing leaked the plans for the 3 797 variants on the 797 forum. All of those plans were scrubbed from internet after the second max crash. I managed to grab some pics of Boeings renderings before they took them down. The M.O.M. will be dominated by the 321 series now.